Florado Review And Experience

"The idea behind a water softener is simple. The calcium and magnesium ions in the water are replaced with sodium ions. "

cannabis doesn't like sodium beware

RO water is safe of course, atention if you use floraduo with ro you must use the soft water version even so they advise to use at least 25% tap water

Anyone have a feeding schedule for this stuff? My buddy's using it and has had much better results than FN. Looks a lot cleaner and easier for clean the reservoir too! Just trying to figure out if this stuff is going to be more cost efficient and work as good or better than the duo!

I just got the same stuff, FloraDuo Part A & Part B, the cute chick at the shop (unfortunate for me...if she told me to feed my plants bleach I probably would have....) told me that this stuff was good, and since I need a transition and flower nute, this seemed the best course. The problem IS, that the shop gave me a nutrient schedule from General Hydroponics...But FloraDuo ISN'T ON IT....
I read a page or so back though and it said someone had called GH head office and they're sending him the nute schedule...I assume in the mail. I'm going to do the same, and call them for a schedule. When it get it, i'd be happy to scan it and either post as a jpg, or a pdf format for you guys. OR, the guy who got it in the mail could do the same, but if not, i'll sort it out myself.

Good to read that it's not so bad though. Need some pH down first. Since my soil pH is suuuper high in the 7.8 range.... She said this was usually used for hydro, since it's not as thick and doesn't clog lines. But that it would work equally as well for soil.

Here's what I found for it. It's not very specific, but it'll due if your in a pinch until the schedule arrives...



FloraDuo is the latest General Hydroponic product to hit the market! This new nutrient is complete, balanced, and very simple. And like all of General Hydroponics’ formulas, it is highly concentrated and cost effective. FloraDuo makes all the essential macro and micro nutrients available to your garden and also provides plants with specific ingredients to help resist pathogens and insects.
It is a 2-part formula, FloraDuo A and FloraDuo B
It is designed for all growing methods: including hydroponics, soil, and coco blends.
For vegetative growth- combine 3 parts “A” with 1 part “B”.
For flowering- combine 3 parts “B” with 1 part “A”.



Sounds pretty god damn simple....too simple.
Now if I can just get my pH down, and heat under control, i'll have EVERYTHING under control.

I found the FloraDuo feeding schedule, it's on the General Hydroponics Website.
http://www.generalhydroponics.com/genhydro_US/feeding_charts/GH_FloraDuo_twinpack.pdf

memyselandi said:

"The idea behind a water softener is simple. The calcium and magnesium ions in the water are replaced with sodium ions. "

cannabis doesn't like sodium beware

RO water is safe of course, atention if you use floraduo with ro you must use the soft water version even so they advise to use at least 25% tap water

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I was wondering where you obtained that info from. I have never seen nor heard of it. Not to say it doesnt exist, just want to know where to find it. The other thing is that I am curious why I would use tap water. There is an over abundance of arsenic, radon, radium(a,b,and a+b), chlorine, borine, and about 17 heavy metals in central and southern cali city water. Wouldnt it be easier to just add in a little Ca and Mg?

So, I have a few forums that I had subscribed to (this being one of them) and this is the first time that I have come across floraDuo as a main topic. I have been using it since last summer. I got a hook up of a few quarts of it before it was out in this country and had to go to GHE site to see what the feeding sched looked like. The issue was that alot of the things over there are named something different. Stupid me didnt save the GHE bottles that actually had ALL of the ingredients in it, not just the "plant food". Anyway, I have been struggling a little with working out a good feed sched that works for my grow. I was originally using the old Flora series, supplemented with the 3 part FF granuals. Since then I have done alot of research into which american nutrient companies took the toxic waste that was supposed to go to EPA labs. Apparently millions of tons of toxic waste is bypassing the EPA by them giving it to nute companies that are putting trace amounts of it in the nutrients and claiming that they are under the EPA safe tolerances standards. Regardless, I am pretty sure everyone here will agree that we dont want ANY toxic waste in our nutes. Anyway, thats what lead me to stop using the FF granuals.

So I went with the floraDuo supplemented with the rest of the GH line for expert recirc, with the exception of the sweetener, and calcium. I was using Techniflora SugarDaddy for sweetener, and MagiCal for ca/mg supp.

After a few cycles of that I had too many issues with lockout because of the Techniflora nutes. The problem was the the sweetener is mostly nutes with 2% cane sugar thrown in. I realized that the dry koolBloom has proportionately measured S, K, and P in them and I was wasting my time dumping in sugardaddy. As for the MagiCal, that didnt play well with the GH line at all. It caused a K lockout, so I switched to GO CaMg+, thinking that since it was organic, I would not have the lockout issue. Its only been 2 wks since switching to CaMg+, but my girls are doing much better. I am still fighting with PH fluctuations a little but believe that was caused by the aeroFlo setup I had going. The pump was too small to power it, and I had slow water circulation. That lead to the accumulation of gnats, which were a pain in the ass to get rid of. I usually use nemotodes to get rid of gnats, but I had to use some Actinovate to deal with the algae problem. The thing is that Actinovate kills nemotodes. So I just used some cedar oil before a flush to kill the gnats.

Anyway, now that I have become a GH whore, I am wondering if anyone else is dealing with PH issues or deficiencies with the floraduo? I had a long talk with the GH rep at the local hydro shop and explained my issues and told him the issues that I was having. He explained to me that the new GH floraduo feed chart is different than things used to be with GH. Apparently these nutes are designed to be used together. Not the normal marketing ploy to get people to buy a bunch of unnecessary shit, but genuinely work together. So, I conceded and bought the stuff. I will say that it is working out okay, but I must be doing something wrong. One thing is that I am not using the rapidStart as it contains growth hormones, and I have no interest in consuming anything with GMOs in it. That is another reason that alot of our GH products differ from europe. They are way more advanced in their ag practices than we are. They dont go for that chemical crap, GMOs, or toxic things in the nutes. Their government is more stringent on testing than the FDA or EPA in this country. I think that next grow I will try floraduo with only GO additives and see how that does. I used to use flora series(lucas formula), CaMg+, and Bioroot and killed with that shit. Now that I 900 bottles of nutes(over exaggerated) I am having issues. That or I will continue to adjust the formula for optimal mix. The other thing that might help is that I bought some seeds for Barneys Farm and am thinking that I will finally have some stable genetics to try on. I have been relying on clones from the clubs and the crops are never uniform, which is bullshit. Usually you only have one runt in the group and the rest are pretty uniform. So in the end I guess it boils down to tailoring your nutes for each specific grow. I will just start the new grow at 80% strength, and push it up till burn them a little to see where the EC ceiling is on the new strain and take it from there.

To answer the question about why the formula "changed" was mostly just further testing with the final formula. They go into it on the gh blog. If there are any differences in the sample stuff or the stuff they sold in europe and a grow and bloom rather than part a and b (smarter) it is very minor. same same.

I like the effective NPK of the 1:1 mix 6:5:8 and some micros will feed just about every strain out there with minimal effort and sludge or salt. Easy.

I'm going to give it a shot in the ebb-gro and see how it does. Ladies are wk4 bloom now so this round will be 1/2 AN and 1/2 GH. Next round will be real test.

WestCoastDank said:

Anyone have a feeding schedule for this stuff? My buddy's using it and has had much better results than FN. Looks a lot cleaner and easier for clean the reservoir too! Just trying to figure out if this stuff is going to be more cost efficient and work as good or better than the duo!

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Its great stuff WestCoastDank, I've yet to nail down a standard feed schedule, depends on strain light and maturity of course, but seems to be hard to fail with this stuff. Start small and ramp it up, very complete line of nutes, I still run koolbloom and floranectar at the end, a bit of florablend during veg. Other than that, its basically stand alone stuff. Seems pretty hard to burn with it, I've gone heavy on 7 week Indicas and they love it. Hope this helps!

Thow in some diamond nector into the mix helps with ur nute uptake i use it everytime during my veg cycle works really well, others i kno use it 3wks into bloom

Good stuff.. hard to burn plants ... ph is rock solid... im not using any additives,,, just a and b .. grows like a weed.. using it in a few soil and a hydro plant...

5 gal dwc and Im having looks like cal mag nute troubles with duo

dimebagdan said:

5 gal dwc and Im having looks like cal mag nute troubles with duo

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uh, i've heard duo isn't for hydroponics...

one plant that i feed with floraduo its great, very tolerate with slight high dose in early veg along with cal-mag, and grow up fast and crazy...i use it in my soilless pot that was my first syntex fertilizer since i always use organic powder stuff for cannabis.

ive been using flora duo on my GHS trainwreck dwc NON RECIRCULATING dwc 5 gallon buckets and have had nothing but great success....using tap water....seems to be doing its thing for me

also, been using it half strength or less....last water change i believe i did 30 mls of each per 5 gallon bucket....with 4 gallons of water in it

Using it again.... im way above the feeding schedule in dirt (10 gal. smart pot) I mixed 150a/300b for 28 gallons... I was at 1350 ppm... seems like the smaller bottles were more concentrated... if I went by there feeding chart for soil I would be at 800ppm... my girls have a 400watt light each,, im pretty sure they are hungry... growing great so far... adding only dynagro silica..

Same thing Happen to me

Shit works like a charm. Got 3 in DWC doing excellent, and 3 in coir doing phenomenal. No added supplements at all. Just about to switch to flower. Don't have any info on that yet, but veg works like a charm.

I used it my last grow, and it was fantastic. Buds were so sticky. I used it exactly as the chart shows. None of that half strength stuff. My plant had no deficiencies at all. I used Floraduo A and B with the Florablend, and Floralicious plus, with some super thrive, and I have people begging me to grow again. Highly recommend it Last time I didnt even check my ph levels EVER. This time I am going to try doing that and see if my yield increases. But for quality of bud, and a nice clean smoke I am a Floraduo fan and believer .

I found that floraduo works great in my flood and drain hydro setup.medium is straight perlite/with rw in the bottom of the pots to retain water.
GH recomends to use 1tsp per gallon part A+B for general mild use.I find this to strong and have been feeding 1/2 strengh the whole way through.
Grew some Platnium out that was fully loaded with sugar!....Got me fully loaded too
ps...wish I saved a mama plant for a repeat!

Yeah, I started out with Duo. My first nutes. Started out in hydro too(5 galllon Bubble Buckets). I tried the A/N AB shit a friend gave me, and salt residue everywhere. I wouldn't even think of putting FloraNova in with how thick that shit is no matter how good it's supposed to work. Duo has been solid so far and I've never had any issues with the nutes. Clean, thin, no buildup. Potent as hell too. I've never gotten past 1/2 strength, but then again GH does not come out and say that their nutes are strictly for Cannabis. Nasa uses the shit too so I don't think their feeding schedule is tailor made for cannabis. I think it's made to suit most plants with cannabis as a side note. Anyways, go light on the PPM's and shit is all good.